by HIStalk | Nov 30, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Xealth Launches Innovative Feature Allowing Doctors to Digitally Recommend OTC Products Xealth announces GA of software that enables providers to send patients digital recommendations for over-the-counter healthcare products, apps, and services from within their EHR...
by HIStalk | Nov 30, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Unsealed court documents reveal that two Iranian hackers were responsible for SamSam ransomware attacks on 200 organizations earlier this year in the US and Canada, including Allscripts. The victims, which also included hospitals and municipalities, wound up...
by HIStalk | Nov 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Recent data from Case Western Reserve University shows that hospitals meeting EHR Meaningful Use standards had average patient stays that were shorter than their non-MU-compliant counterparts. Digging deeper into the data, they looked at four years of information and...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KARYN MULLINS Consumers aren’t taking their healthcare providers’ words for it anymore. They’re taking charge and leading a digital revolution where individuals have the power to make their own educated decisions about care. According to the Healthcare Consumer...
by HIStalk | Nov 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Atrium Says Hackers Accessed Its Billing Records Billing services vendor AccuDoc Solutions reveals that a September breach of its database may have impacted over 2 million Atrium Health (NC) patients. HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden CMS and ONC...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 28, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT, with OLIVIA DUNN & KIM KRUEGER Today I’m happy to release an update to some unique data about a pressing problem–the ability of small health tech vendors to access data from the major EMR vendors and integrate their applications into those EMRs....
by Health IT Buzz | Nov 28, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a draft Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs for public comment. This work, led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
by HIStalk | Nov 28, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health Amazon will launch a software product for payers that combs through electronic patient records to find incorrect coding or diagnoses in an effort to improve quality and lower cost. GAO to look into whether Mar-a-Lago trio...
by HIStalk | Nov 27, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Amazon will announce this week launch of a software product for insurance companies that mines electronic patient records, including both structured and unstructured data. It will look for incorrect coding or diagnoses to improve quality and lower cost....
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 27, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By BRIAN KLEPPER In a recent essay, VIVIO Health’s CEO Pramod John guides us through four sensible drug policy changes and supporting rationales that could make drug pricing much fairer. Reading through it, one is struck by the magnitude of the drug manufacturing...
by HIStalk | Nov 27, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Mental health therapy at Walmart? It’s now a thing Managed care company Beacon Health Options creates a new business to oversee the launch of mental health clinics in retailers like Walmart, promising virtual access to providers during peak hours. Black Book Survey of...
by HIStalk | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
While many people were out doing their Black Friday shopping, I was getting clobbered at urgent care. We saw over 1,000 patients across our locations, which is similar to the patient counts that we see during the height of influenza season. Many of the patients were...
by HIStalk | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Alexander Scarlat, MD is a physician and data scientist, board-certified in anesthesiology with a degree in computer sciences. He has a keen interest in machine learning applications in healthcare. He welcomes feedback on this series at drscarlat@gmail.com. Previous...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MARY SCOTT NABERS The United States ranks number one in the world for health care spending as a percentage of GDP. That sounds great… but, for instance, Texas ranks only 11th worldwide when it comes to performance. That’s because of access to care. The country’s...
by HIStalk | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Intelerad Medical Systems Acquires Clario Medical Intelerad acquires radiologist worklist technology vendor Clario Medical. Naval Hospital Bremerton’s new medical records system making ‘significant strides’ Fourteen months after going live on MHS Genesis, Naval...
by HIStalk | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News RSNA 2018 kicks off in Chicago’s McCormick Place, running through Friday. A big focus of the conference is artificial intelligence and machine learning. RSNA 2017 drew nearly 53,000 registrants, half of them imaging professionals. Chicago was under a blizzard...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 23, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MERCEDES CARNETHON PhD This month, we saw historic turnout at the polls for midterm elections with over 114 million ballots cast. One noteworthy observation regarding voter turnout is record rates of participation by younger voters aged between 18 to 29 years...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess interviews me all the way from London. In this episode, she asks me about Google, who hired Geisinger CEO David Feinberg to lead its health care initiatives, Driver, a startup which ran out of money just weeks after their launch,...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “When doctors today say patients should stay off the Internet, I know they’re wrong.” — ePatient Dave de Bronkart Dave de Bronkart (aka ePatient Dave) credits online communities of other patients – and access to clinical research he...
by HIStalk | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Apple in Talks to Give Veterans Access to Electronic Medical Records Apple and the VA discuss developing software that would enable veterans to transfer medical records to their iPhones. Jump Technologies Receives $2M in Follow-on Series B Funding, Bringing Total...
by HIStalk | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News The VA is talking with Apple about connecting IPhone-using veterans to their EHR information, The Wall Street Journal reports. The program was conceived by top VA officials who worked with President Trump’s so-called “Mar-a-Lago group” of campaign supporters...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By CELIA BELT Each year in the United States, half a million Americans will be treated for burns so severe as to require hospitalization. The “survivors”—including more than three hundred children each day and a drastically increasing number of U.S. military members...
by HIStalk | Nov 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
The health care venture from Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan just hired its first female exec, and she comes from a big insurance company The ABJ health initiative hires Dana Safran (BCBS of Massachusetts) as head of measurement, leading analysts to surmise the...
by HIStalk | Nov 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Our Experience with Epic’s App OrchardBy Chinmay Singh Chinmay Singh, MBA, MSE is co-founder and CEO of SimplifiMed of San Francisco, CA. SimplifiMed went live last month on App Orchard after several months of work. I believe other startups can benefit from our...
by HIStalk | Nov 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Thanksgiving is upon us, a quintessential US holiday. A friend sent me some seasonally appropriate ICD codes, including the W61.43 category “Pecked by Turkey” and W60 “Contact with Sharp Leaves.” There’s also Z63.1 “Problems in Relationship with In-Laws” for those...
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